Improvement bw scissors



A. W. COATES.

scxssoas. No.188,590. Patented March 20,1871

ATTORNEYS.

N. PEFERS. PNOTUJJTHOGRAPNER WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES AMOS W. COATES 0F ALLIANCE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT llhl SClSSQRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. ESQ-.5190, dated March20, 1677; application tiled February 21, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Amos W. iOA'lES, ofAlliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented a newand uselul Improvement in Scissors; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear. and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification. in which my invention is represented by a plan view.

My invention relates to certain improvements in guarded scissors, orscissors provided with protective end guards, designed for the use oflittle children, to protect them against accidents, which are liable tooccur from their careless handling of scissors pro vided with sharppoints.

. The object of my invention is to provide a simpler, more durable, andmore easily-con- "vnrdly from their respective cutting-edges,

and then around in circular form: to produce a terminal loop, ring, oreye, B. These loops, rings, or eyes, it will be seen, operate asprotective guards to the ends of the scissors, and also permit thescissors to be hung up thereby with the handles in proper li'reeposition ready to be grasped. and, furthermore, the guards are thus madeof a. part oil the scissors themselves, and are not liable to becomeloosened or detached.

As shown, the guards are made in the plane of the-blades and handles;but as a modification of my invention they may be made at right angles20 the plane of said blades; or, in other words, the points of thescissors may be bent around laterally instead of edgewise. With theguards bent outwardly from the cutting-edges, however, and in the planeof the blades, as shown, a better cutting-edge at this point is secured.

Having thus described my invention, what i claim as new is- As a newarticle of manufacture, a pair of scissors having each blade providedwith a protective and guard, made in the form of a. loop, ring, or eye.substantially as and for the purpose described.

AMUS W. UOATES. Witnesses:

Gamer Q. Fauna, tissues A. HIGGINS.

